Kowdiar-Vellayambalam stretch: New surveillance cameras installed

TNN | Updated: Apr 29, 2018, 23:56 IST

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Thiruvananthapuram: The city police have added ten more cameras to the surveillance network in the city. Divided into three units, the new cameras are strategically placed along Kowdiar-Vellayambalam stretch, which is prone to drag racing and accidents. All three units have one Pan, Tilt and Zoom (PTZ) camera each.
With this, the total number of cameras in the city police surveillance network has become 233. While the old cameras are analogue closed circuit (CC) cameras, the new ones are digital Internet Protocol (IP) cameras. The cameras were procured and installed by Keltron.

The installation works started after a 22-year-old youth died in a car crash owing to speeding in November last year. There were plans to install cameras on the stretch in the past too, but were abandoned citing difficulties in digging up the road to lay cables as it is considered heritage pathway leading to Travancore palace.

Following the accident, Thiruvananthapuram Road Development Company Limited, the concessionaire of City Road Improvement Project, sanctioned special permission to install the cameras after police received severe flak for the lack of proper surveillance measures.

Motor Vehicles Department too had initiated steps to install a hi-tech speed detection camera unit on the stretch. This unit was inaugurated by transport minister A K Saseendran a month ago.

One more youth lost his life on this stretch on Monday. Gokuldas, a BTech student sustained serious injuries, when he rammed a 400cc bike into an electric pole on the median while trying to overtake a car. He succumbed to injuries on Thursday.

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